1. Unit 4: Race & Ethnicity Clockwise from top left: "Afro- Caribbean", "Caucasian", "East Asian", "West Asian". Aim: To what extent is the concept of race a social construct? Do Now: fill out the 2010 census form?

2. Make some general observations about the way this handout is formatted? What do you notice? does anything strike you as strange?

3. Discussion: 1. Did you feel that the available categories on this form lined up with your own racial and ethnic identity? Why or why not? 2. Do you think that having Hispanic as an ethnicity and not a race makes sense? Why or why not? 3. What benefits do you see to having Hispanic listed as an ethnicity? What drawbacks? 4. What might you change about this form if you could? Do you believe there are better ways to classify people racially?

4. These 3 things are not the same! Try to define them: 1.Race: 2.Ethnicity: 3.Nationality: A group that is set apart from others because of physical differences that have social significance A group set apart from others primarily due to distinctive cultural patterns. A group set apart because of national origin

5. Racial Formation (Omi & Winant, 1994): a sociohistorical process whereby racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed

6. Think of the arbitrary nature of race like grades in school… On the scale of 1-100, which numbers correspond with the following grades? A B C D

7. On the left, propaganda used to justify imperialist conquests. On the right, German WWII propaganda promoting the idea of a German ‘race’

8. An annotated reading of the American Anthropological Association ’ s “ Statement on Race ” (1998) Based on this reading, how would you now define ‘ race ’

9. Twins: Are they the same race?

10. Two sets of identical twins, each with racially specific features

11. Recognition of Multiple Identities The ‘ color line ’ (Dubois) Has blurred significantly in The United States “ The One Drop Rule ” concept that even one ounce of ‘ black blood ’ erased all whiteness

13. “It’s very interesting because even though your mother was white she said to you ‘you’re not half-white and half- black, you’re black!” ---Barbara Walters Pre- Oscar Special

14. Aabout her daughter Nahla: “I feel like she's black. I'm black and I'm her mother and I believe in the one-drop theory.'She went on:"What I think is that that's something she's going to have to decide. I'm not going to put a label on it. I had to decide for myself and that's what she's going to have to decide - how she identifies herself in the world. And I think, largely, that will be based on how the world identifies her. That's how I identified myself."And then she seemingly DOES put a label on her:"But I feel like she's black.

15. Recognition of Multiple Identities OR.. “ What are you??? ” “ What Kind of Sexy Half-Asian Are You? ” - YouTube

16. This mother in Brazil has 5 children (all shown above), 3 of whom are considered albinos

20. 1.If you had a mixed- race child, how would you raise the child to think of themselves? 2.What good can come from having an increase in a mixed-raced population? 3.What bad can come from it?

22. Kelly Williams II, 17, Dallas, Texas Self-ID: African American and German/multiracial Census Boxes Checked: black Sandra Williams, 46, Chicago, Illinois Self-ID: biracial/“human being” Census Boxes Checked: black Daisy Fencl, 3, San Antonio, Texas Parents’ ID for her: Korean and Hispanic Census Boxes Checked: has not yet been counted

23. Jakara Hubbard, 28, Monee, Illinois Self-ID: mixed Census Boxes Checked: white/black Gabriela Guizzo, 5, Rockville Centre, New York Self-ID: “A little of everything” Census Boxes Checked: white/Japanese Oona Wally, 25, Brooklyn, New York Self-ID: Chinese and Jewish/Caucasian Census Boxes Checked: white/Chinese

24. Hosanna Marshall, 32, New York, New York Self-ID: African American, Native American, white, and Jewish Census Boxes Checked: black Adrian Adrid, 24, Haleiwa, Hawaii Self-ID: white Census Boxes Checked: white/Filipino

25. Helen Robertson, 54, Los Angeles, California Self-ID: English Census Boxes Checked: white/Asian Ariel Toole, 14, Chicago, Illinois Self-ID: mixed race/multiracial Census Boxes Checked: white/black/Vietnamese

26. The Social Construction of Racial Behaviors What are some Stereotypical, cultural behaviors That we (NOT NECESSARILY YOU) associate with different Racial/ethnic groups? Think in terms of … DRESS? SPEECH? FOOD? BEHAVIOR? NAMES …

27. Dr. Roland Fryer, Harvard University Fryer R, Levitt S. The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names. Quarterly Journal of Economics. 2004;119(3):767-805. http://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/caus es-and-consequences-distinctively-black-names